Let the pictures begin
My digital camera arrived at work today. It is a Minolta G600 6.0mp camera.
I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet, as the battery needs to charge. Just looking at it, I'm fairly happy with it. It has the clamshell front, which I think protects the lens better and saves having to put a power button the the camera. The size is also good, although it's not quite as small as the Canon S-series cameras, and certainly not as small as the Canon SD-series.
Other things that I don't like so much:
- The zoom control is two buttons on the back, rather than Canon's very convenient lever located near the shutter button.
- The brushed metal surface looks like it will show a lot of finger prints.
- It comes with a neck strap rather than a wrist strap. Now this is just dumb. No one wants to put a pocket-sized digicam around their neck.
However, while I think I like Canon's design slightly better, the Minolta was about the same price as Canons with half the megapixels. By all reviews that I read, it appears that the optics and the image sensor on the Minolta are just as good, if not better, than those on the Canon. So I decided to give up some design elements I like in exchange for much higher quality pictures.
If all goes as planned, you should be seeing more pictures here in the future, and I won't have to steal from K1, S1, E1, and S4.
I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet, as the battery needs to charge. Just looking at it, I'm fairly happy with it. It has the clamshell front, which I think protects the lens better and saves having to put a power button the the camera. The size is also good, although it's not quite as small as the Canon S-series cameras, and certainly not as small as the Canon SD-series.
Other things that I don't like so much:
- The zoom control is two buttons on the back, rather than Canon's very convenient lever located near the shutter button.
- The brushed metal surface looks like it will show a lot of finger prints.
- It comes with a neck strap rather than a wrist strap. Now this is just dumb. No one wants to put a pocket-sized digicam around their neck.
However, while I think I like Canon's design slightly better, the Minolta was about the same price as Canons with half the megapixels. By all reviews that I read, it appears that the optics and the image sensor on the Minolta are just as good, if not better, than those on the Canon. So I decided to give up some design elements I like in exchange for much higher quality pictures.
If all goes as planned, you should be seeing more pictures here in the future, and I won't have to steal from K1, S1, E1, and S4.
posted by N at 5:19 PM
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